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Problems with voter ID

Letter to the Editor

Updated:
11/01/2012 01:10:20 PM EDT

In her Oct. 30 letter, Mona Hormel asks why the voter photo ID requirement is unfair. To begin with, not everyone enjoys the frequent traveler lifestyle of Ms. Hormel. In fact, many inner-city residents rely on public transportation and so they don't have cars or licenses with the photo ID. If Ms. Hormel is required to show ID at a state store, she must be much younger than me, for I can't even remember the last time I was asked to show ID.

So is it easy to get the required photo ID? I refer Ms. Hormel to the Sept. 17 article in the Washington Post in which reporter Ann Gerhart shadowed 54-year-old Philadelphian Cheryl Ann Moore as she tried to obtain the then-required photo ID. Even though she had been registered to vote since she was 19, is a homeowner and had her raised seal birth certificate, the odyssey lasted four hours before she obtained the photo ID.

According to the Pennsylvania Sentencing Commission, of the 19.4 million ballots cast since 2004, four cases of voter misrepresentation or impersonation have been recorded.

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